The Night Mother

A wonderfully fantastical story set in a world where the moon has stopped moving, stuck in the sky and there are no more days just nights.

The illustrations are rich and have such a warm palette when in the house of Tock, but when outside the world is full of cool blues and shades illuminated by the ever present full moon.

Madeline Tock is a foundling and can hear the whispers of the dead and lives on the graveyard island with her dad who makes clocks but knows so much more.

The story builds a wonderful mythology about The Night Mother, especially the latest one that has stopped the moon and is behaving differently from all the previous Night Mothers.

This first volume does a wonderful job of setting up all the characters, introducing the mythology that will pull the story through and adding a nice bit of peril to make us want the next volume, now please.

I received this from NetGalley and Oni Press in exchange for an honest review.